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Are these "good" from a design aspect, or "good" because they convert?

• cookiecaper 12y ago
  Like most of these things, they're good because whoever is running these sites thinks they're good. They like pretty pictures. There are a lot of people out there who want to try to justify their tastes by making them sound like they're rooted in some kind of scientific consensus but it's rather rare for that to actually be the case. Designers are especially vulnerable to this and the way that industry jumps on the bandwagon and self-righteously snubs anyone who doesn't do so with them is amazing. To some of us, a good email is 1-2 lines of pure text, and we'd rather go without the bells, whistles, and tracking images.